What do you think about Java 5 enums? I guess it will resolve most issues
IMHO.
Trustin
2005/9/16, Alex Karasulu <aok123@bellsouth.net>:
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> Hi all,
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> I thought I'd break this out into a separate thread and we can discuss
> this issue in isolation.
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> User Centric (Intuitive) Representations
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> I just talked to Ersin on IM. He clarified the differences between
> using a bit-list and a bstring. If we use a bstring then the user would
> have to enter long 25 + 1 (for B) character strings like
> '0100010111101010110111010B' to represent the various grants and denials
> (perms) associated with the ACIItem. The user would have to keep in
> mind the permission associated with every index. This would be really
> hard and not so user friendly. Keep in mind the way people will use
> this. They will perform modify operations where they add an aciItem
> attribute to an entry with the aciItem string. We cannot expect them to
> use this binary string representation.
>
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> A bit-list is a list of identifiers where order does not matter. The
> identifiers in this case are the names of the permissions. Here's an
> example that Ersin gave me online:
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> grantsAndDenials { grantBrowse, denyModify }
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> Now this is much more intuitive to human users than the following
> bstring representation for the same set of permissions in the bit-list
> above:
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> '0000000001000000010000000B'
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> I think it's a no brainer regarding what we want for the String
> representation of the ACIItem.
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> Runtime Machine Centric Representations
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> Now is this representation the best for the machine? Probably not.
> Trustin will most likely prefer a BitSet or even a primitive int where
> the bits in the int are toggled to include the permission. I don't know
> which he will prefer and we'll leave it up to him.
>
>
> However the human representation communicates this structure. The user
> can later modify this attribute to add or remove more permissions from
> the list. The parser takes this and converts it into the runtime
> representation by populating Trustin's beans for ACIItem and its elements.
>
> Alex
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>
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